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25 May 2019

Introduction

In the previous post in the kubernetes series, we deployed a small kubernetes cluster locally on KVM. In future posts we will be deploying more things into the cluster. This will enable us to test different projects, ingresses, service meshes, and more from the open source community, build specifically for kubernetes. To help with this future quest, we will be leveraging a kubernetes package

Introduction

I wanted to explore kubernetes even more for myself and for this blog. I've worked on pieces of this at work but not the totality of the work which I would like to understand for myself. I wanted, also to explore new tools and ways to leverage the power of kubernetes.

If you have ever worked with kubernetes, you'd know that minikube out of the box does not give you what you need for a quick setup. I'm sure you can go minikube start, everything's up... Great...kubectl get pods -n kube-system. It works, let's move on...

But what if it's not let's move on to something else. We need to look at this as a local test environment in capabilities.

When I first started using ansible, I did not know about molecule. It was a bit daunting to start a role from scratch and trying to develop it without having the ability to test. Then a co-worker of mine told me about molecule and everything changed.